June 2014 Sales Conference Notes

Good day and thank you for joining us to review June sales results for Toyota, Scion and Lexus.

Speaking today will be:

Bill Fay, Group Vice President and General Manager of the Toyota Division

And Jeff Bracken, Lexus Group Vice President and General Manager

A recording of the call will be available at Pressroom.Toyota.com about one hour after its conclusion and of course our communications team also is available to field any additional questions you may have at (310) 468-5297.

Now I’d like to turn it over to Bill for a look at the June results.

Toyota Division Group Vice President and General Manager Bill Fay:

Thank you Carly,

Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us today.

Just as the calendar

Had an impact on auto industry sales in May

It also had an effect on June results

With one less weekend

Two fewer selling days

Despite those challenges

The industry had an outstanding month

Total sales of 1.4 million vehicles

Up 1.2 percent

From a volume standpoint

The industry’s 5th straight month of Y/Y gains

And up nearly 9% on a daily selling rate basis

A real indication of just how strong the market was in June

Is the Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate

Which shot up to 17 million for the month

That’s the best monthly SAAR since July of 2006 (17.2)

Pushed the YTD SAAR to 16.1 million

Midway through 2014

YTD industry sales have now topped 8.1 million vehicles

Up 4.3%

With a good second quarter

More than overcoming the weather impacted first quarter results

Toyota, Lexus and Scion

Outperformed the industry in June

With total sales of 201,714

Up 3.3% for the month

On a volume basis

And 12% when adjusted for the fewer selling days

That is our best June result in seven years

(2007, 215,000+)

For the first six months

Our combined sales 1,165,000

Are up 5%

Slightly ahead of the industry pace

For the Toyota Division

June sales of 178,196

Are up 2 ½ percent on a volume

11% on a DSR basis

Passenger cars out-paced light trucks

For the second straight month

As the Toyota Division repeated as the industry’s

#1 retail brand

A position it has held every month this year

From here on

I’ll stick with straight volume percentages

And year-over-year comparisons

Camry and Corolla

Both posted double-digit gains in June

Camry up 13.5 percent

With sales of more than 40,600 units

Corolla up 17%

At nearly 31,000

Both models

Benefitted from the pattern of fleet deliveries

That brought our total fleet mix for the year

Back in line with last year’s pace

YTD

Camry continues to be the best-selling car in America

Sales of more than 222,000 vehicles

Up 7% for the year

While Corolla is the best-selling sub-compact car in America

Just shy of 175,000, up 10%

Light truck sales

Were on a par with year ago levels in June

As we continue to work through inventory challenges

Some created by rail car shortages

RAV4, Highlander and 4Runner

All posted gains for the month

With RAV4 the volume leader at more than 21,000

For the first half of 2014

Trucks outpaced passenger cars

With sales up 8%

And RAV4, Highlander, 4Runner and Tundra all recording double-digit gains

And the Toyota Division

Sold nearly 140,000 hybrid models during the first 6 months

As we continue to account for more than half of all the hybrids sold in America

In the second half of 2014

With consumer confidence now at a six-year high

And near record-low financing options widely available

We see industry-wide growth continuing to improve

As a result

We’re ready to boost our industry projection for the year

To 16.3 million vehicles

Would make 2014 the industry’s best year since 2007

(16.6 in 2007)

At the Toyota Division

We’re well positioned to take advantage of this growth

With the new Corolla building momentum

The new Camry joining the lineup in a couple of months

And the continued strength of our light truck models

Thank you for joining us today and now I’d like to turn this over to Jeff for a look at Lexus.

Lexus Group Vice President and General Manager Jeff Bracken:

Hello everyone. Thanks for calling in today.

Lexus posted sales of 23,518 in June

Up 10% on a volume basis

And 19% on a DSR basis

That’s our best June in seven years (2007)

As Lexus continues to outpace both the overall industry and the luxury segment

In fact

Lexus YTD sales of nearly 140,000

Are up 17%

One of the largest percentage gains of any major brand

For the first half of the year

Sales of the newest models in our lineup

Led the way in June

As they have all year

With the IS and GX

More than doubling their year-ago totals

For the first six months

IS has now topped 23,000 vehicles sold

Up nearly 120%

Total Lexus passenger car sales

Are up 20 percent for the year

As CT and GS also posted first half gains

As for our YTD luxury utility vehicle results

Sales are now up 14%

As all three models are showing gains

GX sales have more than doubled every month this year

And moved past 10,000 for the year

While RX remains the best-selling luxury SUV model

At more than 47,000

Up 3% from last year

Lexus Certified Pre-owned

Also had a big June and first half of the year

With June sales 5,700

Pushing the total for the year

to a new six-month record of more than 37,000

As Bill mentioned

We expect the industry sales pace

To pick up in the second half of 2014

And that includes the luxury segment

Which led industry growth during the first six months

Two of the hottest segments in the industry

Include entry luxury crossovers and luxury sport coupes

And we have new models coming for each of those segments

Before the year is out

Launch activities are starting to pick up

For NX 200t turbo and 300h hybrid entry level crossovers

Which debuted at the New York Auto show

And will go on sale in the fourth quarter

Response has been outstanding

The NX just went on sale in Japan and is off to a great start, with more than 4,000 vehicles sold, well above expectations

And just as the RX has come to define the luxury crossover segment

We believe the NX models will assume a leadership role in this fast emerging sub segment

Also coming later this year will be the RC and RC F sport coupes

Which we first showed in Detroit

The RC models will fit in the same sweet spot as the IS

For those buyers looking for the sporty styling of a coupe

We expect both the NX and RC to bring new and younger buyers into the Lexus family.

Thank you for joining us today and now I’d like to open this up for any questions you may have.

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